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The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:24 am
by PeteProdge
Right, at 10am Mon 5th March, we'll be voting for the best classic Speccy game beginning with F. As usual, we have this week-long discussion thread to decide which games are going to be included in the poll.

Here's my shortlist...
  • Fairlight by The Edge
  • Fast Food by Code Masters
  • Fat Worm Blows A Sparky by Durell
  • Fantasy World Dizzy by Code Masters
  • Feud by Mastertronic
  • Finders Keepers by Mastetronic
  • Firelord by Hewson
  • Flying Shark by Firebird
  • Football Manager by Addictive Games
  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood by Ocean
  • Freddie Hardest by Dinamic
...and now over to you lot to say "you idiot Peter, you've forgotten about...".

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:33 am
by stupidget
I used to love Fahrenheit 3000!!! Yes, I realise that I must be some sort of moronic sadist, but, even though it was insanely hard I used to spend ages playing it.

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:33 am
by Mike Davies
  • Firefly - Ocean
  • Frankenstein - CRL
  • Future Knight - Gremlin

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:35 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
FRED.

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:38 am
by Einar Saukas
Frank N Stein

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 11:02 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
"You dear Peter, you've forgotten about..."

- Fantastic Voyage: a very entertaining adventure
- Fernando Martín Basket Master, one of the best basketball games
- Flight Simulation: Maybe it won't win, but I think it deserves to be in the poll
- Frank Bruno's Boxing, one of the best boxing games
- Formula One. Never played it much, but people usually love this management game.

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 11:40 am
by Joefish
Fat Worm Blows a Sparky
Flunky
Full Throttle

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:21 pm
by Metalbrain
I'd like to add:
- Frightmare

and it's Freddy, not Freddie

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:45 pm
by Nomad
No love for 'The Forest'?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1843

Mix of Basic and assembly to generate an open world or orienteering simulator? .... Ok, I'll get me coat.. :lol:

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:56 pm
by namco
Fist II: The Legend Continues

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:23 pm
by hitm4n
FFS III The Forehead Slap


or just Frank N Stein would be my vote.

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:13 am
by Morkin
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 11:02 am "You dear Peter, you've forgotten about..."

- Fantastic Voyage: a very entertaining adventure
- Fernando Martín Basket Master, one of the best basketball games
- Flight Simulation: Maybe it won't win, but I think it deserves to be in the poll
- Frank Bruno's Boxing, one of the best boxing games
- Formula One. Never played it much, but people usually love this management game.
If Juan doesn't vote for Fred I just don't know what's real any more...

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:26 am
by R-Tape
Ideally we should leave F until September 2nd, which as we all know is International Fred appreciation day. Maybe we should skip it for now and move on to G :-p

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:48 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Morkin wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:13 am
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 11:02 am "You dear Peter, you've forgotten about..."

- Fantastic Voyage: a very entertaining adventure
- Fernando Martín Basket Master, one of the best basketball games
- Flight Simulation: Maybe it won't win, but I think it deserves to be in the poll
- Frank Bruno's Boxing, one of the best boxing games
- Formula One. Never played it much, but people usually love this management game.
If Juan doesn't vote for Fred I just don't know what's real any more...
I said Fred two posts before!
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:35 amFRED.
Anyway, I'm ready for the fight. The F poll will be the mother of all battles...

We'll win.

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:05 am
by R-Tape
Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:35 am
Anyway, I'm ready for the fight. The F poll will be the mother of all battles...

We'll win.
You're already gathering acolytes it seems...

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Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:18 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
INFILTRATE
DESTROY

*mwahahahaha*

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:27 pm
by Morkin
Oh no - the vote hasn't even gone up and "Fred-gate" has already started... :lol:

Anyway it won't win, it's OK, but not that good...


(Runs away and hides from Juan)

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:23 pm
by Rorthron
Can we include "Fred, Sir" and split the Fred vote? :)

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:15 pm
by Stefan
F16 Combat Pilot by Digital Integration
F29 Retaliator by...oops wasn’t on the Speccy

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:37 pm
by AndyC
Stefan wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:15 pm F16 Combat Pilot by Digital Integration
Well damn. I thought I had this down to a tough choice between Fantasy World Dizzy (easily the best Dizzy) and Frank N Stein (quirky but I loved it BITD) and then you go and throw in a genuine classic I lost hours to and had almost forgotten....

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 11:50 am
by PeteProdge
As it stands, the nominees are...
  • F16 Combat Pilot by Digital Integration
  • Fahrenheit 3000 by Softstone
  • Fairlight by The Edge
  • Fast Food by Code Masters
  • Fat Worm Blows A Sparky by Durell
  • Fantastic Voyage by Quicksilva
  • Fantasy World Dizzy by Code Masters
  • Fernando Martín Basket Master by Dinamic
  • Feud by Mastertronic
  • Finders Keepers by Mastertronic
  • Firelord by Hewson
  • Firefly by Ocean
  • Fist II: The Legend Continues by Melbourne House
  • Flight Simulation by Psion
  • Flunky by Piranha
  • Flying Shark by Firebird
  • Full Throttle by Micromega
  • Football Manager by Addictive Games
  • Forest, The by Phipps Associates
  • Formula One by CRL
  • Frank Bruno's Boxing by Elite
  • Frank N Stein by PSS
  • Frankenstein by CRL
  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood by Ocean
  • Fred by Investronica
  • Freddy Hardest by Dinamic
  • Frightmare by Cascade
  • Future Knight by Gremlin
Any more for any more?

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:37 pm
by Ralf
Maybe not candidates for the winner but good, recognizable, classic games:

Fairlight 2
Forgotten Worlds
Foxx Fights Back

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:25 pm
by PeterJ
Rather late in the day, but here is games starting with F. I will get a proper page sorted when I can.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=53

For me it's Fairlight.

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:19 am
by Nomad
Fall of the third Reich?

A nice simulation game of real Endkampf. But understandably for those same reasons deeply frustrating. :lol: (You cannot win, you can only delay the inevitable defeat) For me one of the best examples when you should not model exactly real life to give some more game play options.

Back in the day I wondered how this game ever got off the drawing board in the state that it was in. With no win state what was the point in playing the game in the first place?

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: discussion

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:18 pm
by Morkin
This might be the hardest choice so far, for me. Some good/classic games in there. It's a toss up between at least 3 at the moment.